Purpose – To provide research‐informed guidance to leaders of quality and safety improvement and evidence … 1985 into managers' and leaders' role in quality and safety improvement. Classification into “eA”: Empirical research … literature emphasises the importance of committed leadership for successful quality and safety improvement, research evidence …

Purpose – This paper considers some implications of recent developments relating to patient safety for understandings … understandings of safety problems and efforts to address these. Contemporary understandings of patient safety suggest that, to be … deemed trustworthy, health care providers should make vigorous efforts to improve patient safety, be honest about safety …

and safety research to provide evidence for improved systems. However, such collaborations and capacity building do not … safety research when researching health care accreditation in Australia are presented. Design/methodology/approach – A case …. Practical implications – Two principles to maximise opportunities to mobilise capacity for quality and safety research have been …

risk is constructed within the dominant discourses around patient safety within the domain of psychiatry. It also seeks to … improve patient safety then it must recognise that it is not possible to create a no‐blame culture and, therefore, it is more … important to consider which type of culture will impact most positively on patient safety. It appears that psychiatrists are …

effective, systemic change in organisations. Using reports of a number of high‐profile initiatives to improve patient safety, it … improve safety and quality. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses recent work in sociology that is concerned with the … to improve safety and quality to extrapolate the factors associated with individual clinician leadership, which may have …

unreliable processes – that can impact the timeliness and safety of care. Hospitalists largely rely on personal presence and …

Purpose – Research on patient safety campaigns has mostly concentrated on large-scale multi-organisation efforts, yet … of an internal patient safety campaign at a large acute National Health Service hospital trust with a view to … that sought to achieve 12 patient safety goals. The authors interviewed 19 managers and 45 frontline staff, supplemented by …

organization and management thinking about gossip in the workplace. It offers new ways of thinking to promote patient safety, and …